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<blockquote data-quote="Gamester17" data-source="post: 50977" data-attributes="member: 10298">Hate to burst your bubble MrMario64 but while that might have been true a two years ago it is not true today, XBMC development has not stood still during the last couple of years and especially the skinning-engine have evolved, so the XBMC skinning-engine is today much more advanced that MediaPortal's (current) skinning-engine, (XBMC skinning-engine is in fact so flexible that none of the skinners have had time to take full advantage of all its features/functions). Other areas that have evolved greatly in XBMC is the music section/database, the native DVD-player with ISO/IMG parsing (with ISO/IMG playback from RAR and ZIP archives support).&nbsp;&nbsp; Both MediaPortal and XBMC are great products but they are not the same product anymore, nor can they compete with each other. The Xbox with XBMC is a cheap investment, it's small form-factor is very convenient and offers superb TV playback at a great price/performance ratio, (cheap enough to have more than one!?), however it only offers upscaling/upconverting to HDTV and not playback of native HDTV material. A HTPC with MediaPortal cost a lot more but it also offers a lot more with TV-recording and playback of HDTV video, it can however be harder to use/setup....a XBMC 2.0.0 point release will be released soon (we're in a feature-freeze/bug-bash stage now), Team-MediaPortal should check it out when it's out&nbsp; 8)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gamester17, post: 50977, member: 10298"] Hate to burst your bubble MrMario64 but while that might have been true a two years ago it is not true today, XBMC development has not stood still during the last couple of years and especially the skinning-engine have evolved, so the XBMC skinning-engine is today much more advanced that MediaPortal's (current) skinning-engine, (XBMC skinning-engine is in fact so flexible that none of the skinners have had time to take full advantage of all its features/functions). Other areas that have evolved greatly in XBMC is the music section/database, the native DVD-player with ISO/IMG parsing (with ISO/IMG playback from RAR and ZIP archives support). Both MediaPortal and XBMC are great products but they are not the same product anymore, nor can they compete with each other. The Xbox with XBMC is a cheap investment, it's small form-factor is very convenient and offers superb TV playback at a great price/performance ratio, (cheap enough to have more than one!?), however it only offers upscaling/upconverting to HDTV and not playback of native HDTV material. A HTPC with MediaPortal cost a lot more but it also offers a lot more with TV-recording and playback of HDTV video, it can however be harder to use/setup. ...a XBMC 2.0.0 point release will be released soon (we're in a feature-freeze/bug-bash stage now), Team-MediaPortal should check it out when it's out 8) [/QUOTE]

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